Author: Eça de QueirósPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1918
Book Description
The Illustrious House of Ramires
Author: Eça de QueirósPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1918
Book Description
The Illustrious House of Ramires
Author: José Maria de Eça de QueirósPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
In a brilliant new translation, the wonderful penultimate novel by Eça de Queirós: “Portugal's greatest novelist” (José Saramago) The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eça de Queirós aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo—charming but disastrously effete, idealistic but hopelessly weak—muddles through his pampered life, burdened by a grand ambition. He is determined to write a great historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his fierce medieval ancestors. But “the record of their valor,” as The London Spectator remarked, “is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, Ramires is continually humiliated but at the same time kindhearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel. Eça de Queirós has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."
A Illustre Casa de Ramires . the Illustrious House of Ramires
Author: j. m. de Eca de queirozPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Illustrious House of Ramires
Author: Eça de QueirósPublisher: Aspects of Portugal
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In this brilliant, many-layered novel, Eca chooses an unlikely hero, a half-ruined aristocrat, generous, devious, who takes refuge from decline in writing about the courage of his forebears. This is the story of Ramires, and of the Portugal of Eca's time.
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Author: Eça de QueirósThe illustrious House of Ramires. Tr. (from the Portuguese) by Ann Stevens
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A provincial scion runs for political office under the patronage of an old foe.
The Illustrious House of Ramires /c[by] Eça de Queiróz. Translated by Ann Stevens
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Author: Eça de QueirósThe Yellow Sofa
Author: José Maria de Eça de QueirósPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
A compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote The Yellow Sofa with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. The Yellow Sofa firmly establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.
The Maias
Author: Jose Maria de Eça de QueirósPublisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN: 9781857546088
Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this simple tale, the novel's hero is the talented heir to a notable family in Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts, and in politics. But he enters a society affected by powerful international influences--French intellectual developments, English trading practices--that trouble and frustrate him. In the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual helplessness and his good intentions are reduced to dilettantism. His passionate love affair begins to suffer a devastating constraint.
To the Capital
Author: Eça de QueirósPublisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
As so often with Eca de Queiros, the plot is simple; the fascination of the novel lies in the characters, the incidents and, above all, the warm humanity and mordant wit of this acute observer of the human condition.